Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called
Robotron
, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. I bring this up because
Synthetik
, recently released by
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, feels like the spiritual successor to
Robotron
as a
top-down action roguelike. On the surface, you’ll spend much of your time blasting, and being blasted by, many many robots. But under the simple running and gunning are layers of weapons, power-ups, difficulty adjustments, and a fine sheen of polish.

Image courtesy Flow Fire Games

Synthetik
revolves around you, an android programmed with human consciousness. You willbe duking it out against legions of robots to get to the top of the Kaida Corporation and stop the activation of the
Heart of Armageddon
,
and thus, the destruction of humanity. If you’d prefer, you face the robots hordes with a friend in co-op mode. But l
ike so many roguelikes before it,
Synthetik
gives you one life and you’ll more than likely lose it with the amount of enemies and ordinance thrown your way.

And yet
, I would say
Synthetik
is also one of the more accessible and player friendly roguelikes out there. Because while the overall challenge is rather high,
Synthetik
allows players to pick and choose a series of
curses
—
modifiers to make the next playthrough more or less difficult. For example, you can forgo
Synthetik’s
active reload system(ejecting spent magazines and reloading), and turn down the base difficulty. Or you can make your robot opponents stronger, faster, hit harder, and put penalties on your own firearms and movement. More
curses
translate to rarer weapons but with potent power-ups to compensate, along with more experience for permanent upgrades to your android’s class type. It’s a very welcome addition to a genre where the word
challenging
is often confused for
punishing
.

Image courtesy Flow Fire Games

Combat is a combination of shooting and movement, and weapons in
Synthetik
come in a variety of pistols, shotguns, machine guns, rocket, and grenade launchers to start. Aiming is a big part of combat, as the circle around your target reticle expands when you move, or fire wildly, reducing your accuracy. Standing still for those precious few seconds and letting off a few measured bursts of fire means more accurate shots and the possibility of a critical hit.

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Parkinson’s resting tremor is related to altered cerebral activity in the basal ganglia and the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit. Although Parkinson’s disease is characterized by dopamine depletion in the basal ganglia, the dopaminergic basis of resting tremor remains unclear: dopaminergic medication reduces tremor in some patients, but many patients have a dopamine-resistant tremor. Using pharmacological functional magnetic resonance imaging, we test how a dopaminergic intervention influences the cerebral circuit involved in Parkinson’s tremor. From a sample of 40 patients with Parkinson’s disease, we selected 15 patients with a clearly tremor-dominant phenotype. We compared tremor-related activity and effective connectivity (using combined electromyography-functional magnetic resonance imaging) on two occasions: ON and OFF dopaminergic medication. Building on a recently developed cerebral model of Parkinson’s tremor, we tested the effect of dopamine on cerebral activity associated with the onset of tremor episodes (in the basal ganglia) and with tremor amplitude (in the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit). Dopaminergic medication reduced clinical resting tremor scores (mean 28%, range −12 to 68%). Furthermore, dopaminergic medication reduced tremor onset-related activity in the globus pallidus and tremor amplitude-related activity in the thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus. Network analyses using dynamic causal modelling showed that dopamine directly increased self-inhibition of the ventral intermediate nucleus, rather than indirectly influencing the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit through the basal ganglia. Crucially, the magnitude of thalamic self-inhibition predicted the clinical dopamine response of tremor. Dopamine reduces resting tremor by potentiating inhibitory mechanisms in a cerebellar nucleus of the thalamus (ventral intermediate nucleus). This suggests that altered dopaminergic projections to the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit have a role in Parkinson’s tremor.

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It’s a smaller smartwatch and so will be suitable for a greater number of people compared to its bigger sibling. It shares many of the best elements of Samsung’s other Gear smartwatches, including the excellent rotating bezel that makes navigating intuitive without obscuring the display.

It also has an excellent AMOLED display with vibrant colours. The Gear Sport is water-resistant to 50 metres, which makes it more resilient than the Gear S3 and on a par with recent Apple Watch models.

As you’d expect, it has GPS and GLONASS alongside a heart rate monitor to bolster its fitness credentials. Other features include offline Spotify support, which is great for anyone who wants music without having to carry along their phone. Tizen is currently the only watch operating system to offer offline Spotify, too. Unfortunately, Tizen app support is otherwise lacking compared to rivals.

Now that the
Samsung Gear S3
has been released, the older Gear S2 is much cheaper. In many respects, we still prefer it over the much chunkier Gear S3, even if it does lack many of the sensors that will appeal to outdoor adventurers.

The Gear S2’s 1.2-inch circular screen has a 360 × 360 resolution and uses AMOLED tech, making it one of the sharpest and most vibrant displays available on a smartwatch. The rotating bezel is also one of our favourite methods of interacting with a smartwatch, as it means your fingers don’t obstruct the display.

Add to this solid two-day battery life and the Gear S2 becomes one of the best smartwatches around, at least from a hardware perspective.

Its only drawback is its use of Samsung’s own Tizen OS.Tizen is a custom OS that’s based on Linux. On paper it’s pretty good, letting you pair the Gear S2 with any Android smartphone, not just Samsung Galaxy phones. But it’s nowhere near as developed as Wear OS, which itself isn’t perfect. There aren’t nearly as many apps available as the Wear OS app store, but the core functionality is at least present from what is available.

If you’re looking for a sports running watch that serves double duty as an Android Wear-powered smartwatch, take a serious look at the Polar M600. While it isn’t the most stylish-looking wearable around – it looks like a sports watch – it will happily stand up to some serious workouts thanks to its rugged IPX8 water-resistance rating.

With GPS to track your distance and pace and a heart rate monitor, it ticks all the boxes for serious runners looking to improve their performance. All of the data pulls into Polar’s Flow app, so you can keep tabs on your exercise routine.

Android Wear is the icing on the cake, meaning there’s a good selection of apps and smartwatch functionality. The great news is that the Polar M600 is among the list of confirmed smartwatches receiving the Android Wear 2.0 update, too, so you won’t feel left behind.

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